..The aim of our study was to overcome this limitation by basing QTL detection on the construction of genetic maps highly-enriched in gene markers, and by assessing QTLs across pedigrees, years, and environments...

..We predict that larger flowers with larger reproductive organs, which generally favour outcrossing, will evolve in this natural population of M. guttatus...

A novel mating system analysis for modes of self-oriented mating applied to diploid and polyploid arctic Easter daisies (Townsendia hookeri)

S L ThompsonDepartment of Botany and Centre for Biodiversity Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4Heredity (Edinb) 97:119-26. 2006

..Overall, this study shows apomixis can be partial, and provides evidence for higher levels of inbreeding in polyploids compared to diploids and for significant levels of apomixis in a diploid plant population...

..69 +/- 0.07 and 0.57 +/- 0.33, respectively. These data suggest that pedigree analysis was more accurate than microsatellite marker analyses for estimating inbreeding in this line of Japanese quail...